Security at the End of 2016

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Well, 2016 is just about at an end, and what a year it has been. I’m not going to delve into politics, though that will arguably be how the history books will remember this year, but I want to take a look back at a few of the big security headlines of the year, and then make some completely wildass prognostications about information security in 2017.

Bad News of 2016

Yahoo! reported over 1 billion accounts were stolen by unknown attackers. Though the breaches occurred in 2013 and 2014, they weren’t publicly reported until the tail end of this year.

2016 on System Overlord

Security at the End of 2016

Bad News of 2016